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Do you make an outline first? And how do you keep the action from stalling out in the middle of the story?

I want to try to work on a fic for NaNo, though I'm not going to fuss about word counts. I'm working on an outline for it right now, but I've stalled out with what to do. I have the beginning, I know where I want to end it... I just can't figure out how to get from a to b. It's a huge blank. This seems to happen every time I try to plan out a longer fic. I get the beginning, I get the end, but then I have no clue how to bridge the two.

Date: 2011-10-28 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmouse15.livejournal.com
I write like [livejournal.com profile] antepathy does. Outlines kind of kill my muses. I'll have a sentence or two that describes a key point for every chapter, but nothing more than that.

I'm not very helpful, am I?

Date: 2011-10-28 04:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flybystardancer.livejournal.com
Even a sentence would be more than I have at this point! lol And I'm not entirely strict about the outlines. It's just a way to get an overall shape for the story in place so I can make it longer. (It's also giving me something to do so that I don't actually start writing until November!)

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